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A CARVED IVORY SNUFF BOTTLE INLAID AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF TWO INSIDE-PAINTED BOTTLES
WITH JET AND TURQUOISE BOTTLE Early 20th century
Late 19th/Early 20th century Signed Bi Rongjiu, Early 20th century The first of smoky rock crystal, finely painted
Finely carved on either side with two rounded Painted with landscape scenes on both sides, with a mountainous scene to one side, a
panels depicting two Buddhist Luohans in the front with a scholar on a bridge with lotus spray and crane to the reverse, signed,
black stone inlay seated in meditation and pavilions and mountains, the reverse with a stopper; the second of clear glass, with idyllic
reciting sutras, beneath Sanskrit inscriptions bridge in a tree-lined landscape. 7cm (2 3/4in) landscapes to each face, signed, stopper.
in red, all reserved on a diaper ground and high (2). The largest: 6.5cm (2 1/2in) high (4).
flanked by a pair of turquoise boys faces
issuing beaded rings, the narrow cylindrical £1,000 - 1,500 £800 - 1,200
neck with pendant plantain leaves, with CNY8,600 - 13,000 HK$10,000 - 15,000 CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$8,000 - 12,000
stopper, stand. 6.4cm (2 1/2in) high (3).
Provenance
£800 - 1,200 An English private collection
CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$8,000 - 12,000
For two comparable bottles in the Arthur
Provenance Gadsby collection see Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
A distinguished European private collection 2 May 1991, lot 184 and 185.
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